

What I said can be applied to any type of visa. The policy is not going to fix anything, it’s only going to invade peoples privacy and turn away legitimate visa applicants.
What I said can be applied to any type of visa. The policy is not going to fix anything, it’s only going to invade peoples privacy and turn away legitimate visa applicants.
This is stupid. This will not stop spies and terrorists, they will just create fake accounts. This will only hurt legitimate immigrants.
Data center owners should work as aggressively as possible to build solar and wind capabilities. It would be best for all parties involved. They’d get cheaper energy and it would benefit everyone by not polluting as much.
Even if they cannot power all of their energy needs with renewables they could build some every year.
That’s a good point about alternative rock. I changed the title from usually to sometimes, maybe usually was too much.
I’ve never thought about the word alternative being synonymous with progressive, I tend of think of as meaning against the grain or against the mainstream but in practice sometimes it just means bullshit like in the title. For example RT calls themselves “alternative media” but they’re really just propaganda slop.
Sadly that’s going to change. Musk is going to push an update that I suspect will turn Grok into a far-right disinformation parrot or become closer to that. See https://lemm.ee/post/67429541 and https://lemm.ee/post/67216433
I wish people would study if they could not bother cooling the data centers or raise the thermostat. This article makes it seem unclear if it’s beneficial to do that:
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/opinions/warm-data-centers-is-the-consensus-over/
I wasn’t aware of this before. No wonder Musk felt comfortable stepping down as CEO, he just appointed a like-minded person.
That’s excellent! Hopefully there will be more and more people who don’t know anyone who uses Twitter.
100%! I’m sure you’re not using it but if you have friends/family still on there urge them to quit using Twitter.
If the people you subscribe to are not ones who monetization is important you may want to consider reaching out to them and asking if they’d consider cross posting to PeerTube or another YouTube alternative. They may appreciate not putting all their eggs in one basket and reaching new potential fans.
I hope they crush SpaceX one day.
Why pay money to a company who wants to destroy you? No government should give a dime to Peter Thiel’s Palantir. Thiel is an evil sociopath who may have murdered his boyfriend. He also wants to basically abolish government. A government giving money to Palantir is like a snake eating its own tail.
There are companies which offer training and support to FOSS. Companies could also pay those companies.
I sometimes wonder what if everyone who spends money on licensing fees instead takes the same amount of money and puts it into FOSS. Imagine what we could achieve? Likely the money would be used more efficiently because they could donate it to non-profit companies which don’t need to pay tax.
I’m very happy they got the wage increases but I hope that if Trump is still president in 2028 that people boycott the Olympics. Make the stadiums empty and don’t send any international teams to compete. Visitors risk arbitrary detainment and harassment despite innocence. We must not repeat the 1936 Olympics.
His political contributions are really on brand. He funded election deniers in 2022.
Also I’ve heard Oracle has a bad reputation when it comes to government contracts, very expensive poor quality software ripping off our taxpayers. I think they ought to be blacklisted or at-least require extra review due to their reputation. CUNY paid Oracle over $600 million and look at what that got them: https://pscbc.blogspot.com/2013/03/cuny-first-computer-system-to-aid.html. To be fair the article does claim that “The project required an expenditure of up to a billion dollars to do it right. CUNY Central offered far less. All but one of the bidders dropped out as a result”. I’m confused why it needs to be so expensive, even $600 million seems like way too much.
But Google’s guidance was also telling us that recovery was possible if we just “removed” our “unhelpful” on-page content:
This is very chilling because it means websites will delete content. If the internet archive didn’t grab it in time it means knowledge is gone forever. An algorithm is not going to always be accurate in determining what is helpful.
For those people they should all contact the government agencies that are still on Twitter and demand they switch to Bluesky.
I feel there’s a little bit of wishcasting going on here. How much has the media narrative been slipping away? Sadly it looks like Trump’s polling has made somewhat of a recovery although part of that could be due to partisan pollsters responding to Trump’s accusations that other polls are “fake”. This means we need to fight harder and keep doing the work so his polls go down. Conservatives are still stuck in an echo chamber. We need to get them out of it. I think the best way to do it so take away the fuel/money that powers the propaganda machines rather than trying to reason with individual people.
Also as for wondering about the next crazy thing he’ll do I don’t think much about this much because it I think it might help keep us in a cycle of trauma. I’d really recommend reading this article “I’m A Psychologist Who Specializes In Narcissists. Here’s What We Need To Do To Stop Trump.”. I personally just focus on what I can be doing each day to make a difference and hopefully use my voice to make other people feel empowered and realize they too have a lot of power to make things better just by using their voices and contacting a few people and doing things like that.
Looks wonderful to me!